Hongkui Zeng is executive vice president and director of Allen Institute for Brain Science. She studies neuronal diversity and connectivity in the mouse brain-wide circuits in the context of development, function and disease. At the Allen Institute, she has led research programs using transcriptomic, connectomic and multimodal approaches to characterize and classify the wide variety of cell types that constitute the mammalian brain, laying the foundation for unraveling the cell-type basis of brain function. Her work has led to widely adopted community resources and standards, including transgenic mouse lines, the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, the Common Coordinate Framework and the brain-wide transcriptomic cell-type taxonomy and atlas.
Zeng earned her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology at Brandeis University and did postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
